There’s no doubt about it: the Semantic Web is the hottest thing in the on-line industry at the moment. It’s all over the web, on the speaker circuits, in multitudes of product labs. On-line publishers are being told again and again that they need to get there content into RDF triplets and create linked data. [...]
Content is king, is it? Well maybe. There’s no getting away from the fact that good quality content drives traffic. But in the struggling publishing industry, with waning advertising revenues, we might have to conclude that the current approach to web publishing is just not working.
That’s not to say there aren’t exceptions. Julian Sambles (@juliansambles), [...]
At the tail end of last month I spent two days attending talks at the yearly Internet World exhibition. I always enjoy listening to speakers and the quality was, by and large, very good. On the final day CMS Watch (@cmswatch) hosted a panel discussion in the Content Management theatre entitled: “Open Source v Traditional [...]
Whoa, there. Web 5.0?
Okay, so I made up web 5.0. Actually, I detest the numbered generations we’ve applied to the web. The main problem I have with these terms is that they imply a linear progression. They suggest that we are going to abandon the interactive web, Web 2.0, for the semantic web, Web 3.0. [...]
I recently posted an article about a workflow script I cooked up for automatically tweeting about an article when it gets published via Nstein’s WCM (here). Basically, the script to which the article referred was leveraging data from Nstein’s Text Mining Engine (TME) to create concise but still descriptive tweets. As a brief reminder of [...]
Well, that might be a bit extreme. At least if they do they should put in a bit more effort.
Perhaps I need to explain my problem here. The complaint I have concerns automatic tweets – popular with bloggers and online publshers in general. Extremely unpersonal, often unhelpful clipits drawing the audiences attention to a new [...]
My tweet stream